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Alain Mabanckou — Memoirs of a Porcupine
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Alain Mabanckou — Memoirs of a PorcupineAlain Mabanckou — Memoirs of a Porcupine All human beings, says an African legend, have an animal double. Some doubles are benign, others wicked. This legend comes to life in Alain Mabanckou’s outlandish, surreal, and charmingly nonchalant Memoirs of a Porcupine. When Kibandi, a boy living in a Congolese village, reaches the age of 11, his father takes him out into the night and forces him to drink a vile liquid a jar that has been hidden for years in the earth. This is his initiation.
 
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